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Thursday, 14 January 2010

Skinny Pages for Karen

In the closed Yahoo Group OhMyGothic we have decided to swap skinny pages this year (in fact for the next 15th months) after starting with Gothic Arches (hence the name of the group) in 2008 and then swapping little houses last year. Our skinny pages are sized 4 x 8" and we are making them for a different artist every month. This, our first, month I made the front and the back of the page for Karen. I actually made these some time ago but totally forgot I had done so. When I was moving some stuff around my studio I re-discovered the pages and they will now be mailed to Karen asap.

I knew Karen liked blue, birds and vintage architecture so all those elements found their way into her page and of course my own inclination led me to mount it all on fabric. I used Fast2Fuse as the lining for the pages.

The black swallows are Dresden scrap, and also available from Alpha Stamps. I used a transparent sparkling ribbon to edge the page with but have to say that it gave me more trouble than both pages combined so I'll probably give that a miss next time! I like the look of it, though!

2 comments:

your pages are so lovely, Frieda. The stitching around on the first side of the page is so appealing! And i love that you made your page for Karen out of fabric. i look forward to seeing more and so glad we get to exchange pages as well.xo lenna

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I am an award winning artist mainly working in textiles and mixed media, whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally,and has won many prizes including winning the Scottish Quilt Championship in 1998, the European Quilt Championship in 2006 and the British Quilt and Stitch Village in 2015. My work has also won prizes for hand workmanship, computer design, art quilting and embellishment. I entered the world of mixed media around 2004 and my Artist Trading Card (ATC) Enduring, Unending won Best of Show in the House of Cards exhibition, Columbus, Ohio, 2005. I love art journalling and at the moment I'm an monthly Guest Designer for Stencilgirl Products. My art has been published in a wide variety of magazines and books both here in the U.K. and abroad.I love photography and have uploaded a daily picture to the Blipfoto site for the last 6.5 years. In 2012 I completed my self set task of making one Journal Quilt every week in the 52 Journals Project and they were exhibited in a very successful show in Peebles in 2014. I'm a full-time studio artist.

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